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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019809870
Format: Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Weinstein Company
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
MPN: WEID80987D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Dedication is a modern love story in which a misanthropic emotionally complex children s book author named Henry is forced to team up with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and creative collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love. System Requirements:Run Time: 95 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 796019809870 Manufacturer No: 80987
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At first glance, Justin Theroux's directorial debut looks like a romantic comedy, but it's really a character study. And misanthropic children's book author Henry (Billy Crudup, who worked with Theroux in Broadway's Three Sisters) is one heck of a character. For inspiration, he turns to the Japanese cult classic Gamera. When feeling stressed, he piles books on his prone chest. Henry has worked with illustrator Rudy (Tom Wilkinson, Crudup's Stage Beauty co-star) for 15 years when the unthinkable happens. Contractually obligated to produce another Marty the Beaver adventure, his agent (Bob Balaban) partners him with doctoral-candidate-turned-artist Lucy (Mandy Moore). While Henry mourns his only friend, Lucy nurses a broken heart--her mother/landlord (Dianne Wiest) has just evicted her and her boyfriend/thesis advisor (Martin Freeman) has just dumped her. It's discomfort at first sight, but feelings soften as these wounded personalities learn to work--and heal--together. You can see the conclusion coming from a mile away, and Moore's character is underwritten (David Bromberg penned the script), but Crudup makes what could be an indie film cliché--the New York neurotic--almost seem fresh. As for Theroux, a busy actor best known for his movies with David Lynch, like Mulholland Drive, the first-timer has a sharp eye for the arresting image and a discriminating ear for the evocative tune--the soundtrack includes music by alternative rock favorites Deerhoof, Cat Power, and Joanna Newsom. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Rating:  -
It's rare very rare in these days to explore forgiveness and grace when you are speaking of romance. The persona of both the main characters in the love interest here Mandy Moore and Bill Cudrup are excellent choices by the casting crew.
Both of them are extremely suited for their roles, Bill Cudrup as the product of a typical abusive childhood and Mandy Moore as the product of a "normal" childhood. Immediately the audience can relate to two personal emotions in this romance, frustrated ... Read More
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This romance has a hero who is edgier than most and not very likable on the surface. Little by little, he starts to get under your skin until you are hooked, even though he seems determined to sabotage the whole thing. Very well acted and written.
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I really enjoy most of Mandy Moores movies, but this certainly is not one of them. I wouldn't waste my time watching it, not even as a renter.
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Well directed, well written and well acted. There's a humor in the story that isn't common. This film is a sleeper. One person will watch it and dismiss it as just another romantic comedy, and another will see it for what it actually is: multiple talents working together to create an excellent movie. Loved it.
Rating:  -
Billy Crudup plays a misanthropic self-hater full of obsessive quirks that make no sense and that turn him into an extraordinarily unlikeable schmuck. Therefore, the film makes no sense in its attempt to redeem him with Mandy Moore playing his baby-talking foil. His relationship with his late father appears to be his central reason d'etre, but that makes no sense either. The plot makes out another guy to be worse than Billy because he wrote two dedications to his pending book, one for Mandy Moore and one ... Read More
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